The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-09

Each trocn You 4 WHOLESOME lesson lestKh u.
sweet flower return, With youcg gentle brush
again the cilvck of fair maiden touch.
oh, return, Swee, tIo Ter, and restore
Her lon9-,oSt charm, q suaiden'S blush.
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TUCKER AND HIS GUrTERMlLN.
The eeN-Cousrcsslnaa's 5 Drink yyl,:ie Making
Public Speeches--.s Briiiia": Career.
(Erom the Philadelphia HccordA
WASHINGTON, October 2S.-When /
went to Colonel Attorneys 6airy oppo
site the Treasury to get my daily sand
Wich this afternoon saw the Hon. Jobn
Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, drinking
something out OF the white China mugs
Colonel Alderney serves his milk in.
When expressed my establishment mat
such fsmous bon vivant should be
drinking plain, everyday milk, he ex-
piaineo that be was not-tnat IN point OF
Tact it was buttermilk. "Buttermilh and
Z" he said, ssare old friends. We have
made many political campaign logeth-
er. Why 7 used to be called butter
milk candidate all through my district.
Wherever j went to speak some gocd
fellow would come up with I have a
pitcher Of butterrnilk here for You,
sWhy SO have !, some ether fellow
would say, and so ! would usually start
in with half a gallon OF bu1sermiik on
draught. It's the best drink you can
possibly take when you are making &
public speech, water irfianes the tender
throat, butternnilk coots and lubricates 1t
and, besides, it IS full Of rouriShmens,
and that IS all important sometimes.
Henry A. Wise told NE OF it first IN
1855, when I was iusS beginning my
public Life, and I have thanked him 1cr
It ever since" But:erm;lk seemed TO
have been the tide OF fuckers Affairs
which taken at its food led on to for
tune, for he wss elected Attorney Gen
eral of Virginia in 1857, when be was
only thirty-four, and reelected year
after year until 1855. He won g splen-
did reputation. Then he went over to
the Washington and Lee University, at
Lex .neton, where he filed the chair OF
EQUITY and Public Law until lS7o, when
he entered upon twelve years Of service
IN the House of Representatives. which
ended last spring only because ne wished
Il, for he declined denomination, which
was equivalent to reelection.
Tucker's public life has been uniform
ly fortunate. His work has almost al
ways been in the direct line OF lis pro-
fession, notably SC duriay the two Con-
crosses Just past, when hs was Chairman
of the Judiciary Committee 0: the
House. His high integn;.f, his Brilliant
intelligence, finding expression in witty
tongue, and his charming coartesN have
secured him the respect and regar! Of
his friends and foes-poGacal foes, of
course. I doa't see how Randolph
Tucker could ever have had any pcrS'2al
foes. An elder Il the PreSbyt rian
Church, his life agreed with MS profes-
sion. The best story-1elier II Washing
ton, he. had more dinner invitations than
any other man in public life, and be
knew good dinner as quickly as good
story when he saw one. His hair and
his mustache are getting gray, but his
cheeks are as ruddy and his eyes as
sparkling behind his gold-rimmed glasses
as ever. Now that he IS sixty years old
ne thinks it about time he should make
some money, and so ne has settled dow1:
to practice law with every prospect OF
marked success. No lawyer, whatever
his reputation, can make IL Washington
500, coo or $500, 600, or whatever Ii is
that Conkiing makes year II New YORK.
But man OF fuckers standing can
make small fortune In a few years. l
trust Tucker may. I don't know any
nan shat e fortune would so we'll be-
come. The number Ct things that q man
Ike him could do with the money some
of our milhcaaires don't know what to
do with would astonish the milionaices.
Although Judge Tucker has not got his
library all unpacked yet he is already up
to his ankles in cases. The appeal of
the Chicago Anarchists to the United
States Supreme Court is one Of them.
When Tucker was a>ke3 by q horror
stricken friend the other day: s'What,
VIII you defend the Anarchists" be re-
piled: eI will defend the Constitution. "
: It is, of course, solely for the reason
that he believes their constitutional
rights have been infringed that he has
taken the case of those wretched fellows.
He does not see how any lawyer could
refuse to defend any man in the right
guarantee him by the Constitution. II
Attorney General Garland should ever
resign you would see John Randolph
Tucker at the head OF the Department Of
Justice. Meanwhile he will make
enough, I trust, to entertain as he would
like to as member OF the Cabinet.